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Londoner Daniel Brooks made a mockery of his awful season surging to a surprise three shot lead at the halfway stage of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. The 28 year old won the Madeira Islands Open last season, but followed that breakthrough with 14 consecutive missed cuts before picking up another cheque. After playing the weekend in Dubai at the end of January, Brooks missed 13 cuts in a row this term, but finished tied for 20th in France last week to stop the rot. An opening 64 at ...

Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry are doing their best to keep the Irish flag near the top of the mast at the Scottish Open at Gullane. For a second day running both McDowell and Lowry posted four under par 66s to move to enjoy a seven-way share of second place at eight under par and three adrift of little-known Londoner Daniel Brooks who added a 65 to move to 11-under par. McDowell ended a run of three missed cuts, two in the States and last week’s double defence of his French Open title, with ...

Phil Mickelson insists long-time rival Tiger Woods’ return next week to St. Andrews, and where he captured two Open Championship’s in dominating manner, could herald a return to form for the struggling former long-time World No. 1. Woods is expected to arrive at St. Andrews over the weekend to begin preparations for next Thursday’s start to the 144thstaging of golf’s oldest Major. Woods is a three-time former Open Champion winning first at St. Andrews by eight shots in 2000, and in what ...

Legendary coach Peter Cowen is one golf’s best-known and more successful coaches but he believes an aging Tiger Woods will never regain the invincibility that earned the American 14 Major Championship victories. Cowen coaches the likes of former European and PGA Tour Number One Henrik Stenson, past U.S.Open winner Graeme McDowell along with England’s prolific-winning Lee Westwood and more recently had begun working with former European No. 1 Robert Karlsson. Cowen is in attendance at around 30 ...

Defending champion Justin Rose was genuinely concerned first in hitting a spectator but then seeing a 14- year old witness to the incident feint and also collapse on the second day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Gullane. Rose hit a wayward drive down the left side of the 16 th fairway that hit an elderly man in the head and with the spectator first collapsing to the ground before the male teenager, who was unrelated to the spectator, feinted at the sight of the wound. On-course ...

Shane Lowry felt right at home muscling his way to within three shots of the lead on the opening day of the Scottish Open at Gullane. Lowry birdied two of his opening three holes and then drained birdie putts at 10 and the 16th to be sharing 10th place with fellow Irishman Graeme McDowell. Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen posted a seven under par 63 to head the field by one stroke from England’s Daniel Brooks who was in the very last group and birdied the last at 8.30pm. Seven players share second ...

Peter Cowen’s coaching academy near Sheffield has been broken into 25 times including seven break-ins this year alone but fortunately tapes of Graeme McDowell’s golf swing in 2010 remain secure. Cowen replayed the tapes to McDowell ahead of the Ulsterman shooting a four under par 66 on the opening day of the Scottish Open at Gullane. McDowell, who has missed the cut in his past two European Tour starts, had raced to six under par before bogeying his closing two holes in a four under par 66 on ...